The Green Destinations Seminar has reserved 5 more places for free participation, especially for young experts from Africa, China, Argentina, Canada, and Australia-Pacific. They will learn how to make their tourism destination more sustainable, attractive and competitive and how to become a true Green Destination.

Green Destinations is a seminar series for destination management officers, environmental experts, and consultants can gain and exchange experience on how to make tourism destinations more sustainable, attractive and competitive.

Seminars in Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, French, Greek, Turkish: dates to be announced. Optional: the seminar is complemented with live workshops, and a GSTC Course.

Participants will receive: live and online training, workshops led by expert trainers, webinars, a reader, Green Destinations Manual, regular newsletters, personal expert support in preparation of your destination's recognition/award, a Seminar Diploma, and 50% discount to the GSTC Course.

If you want to work responsibly and successfully in making tourism in your destination more sustainable and competitive it is important to know:

What is a sustainable destination?

How sustainable is your destination?

How sustainable are your tourism businesses?

Which actions to take and priorities to set for improvement?

How to monitor progress in your destination?

Which good practices, tools, networks and financial instruments to use?

How to get international recognition?

How to promote and market your green offer?

The Green Destinations seminars and workshops are using and combining the best available international tools for learning and training, including the official GSTC Course, the Global Sustainable Tourism Review (GSTR), the DestiNet Knowledge Base, Sustainable tourism award & certification programmes, best practice examples, and the Travel Green Europe marketing package.

Tourism management officers, experts and consultants are invited to gain latest insights in sustainable coastal tourism, and learn how to make your destination sustainable and more attractive to visitors, making use of the Global Sustainable Tourism Review (GSTR), which is a tool to implement the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria for Destinations (GSTC-D), issued by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).

Experts who would like to become a Green Destinations-GSTR, or QualityCoast expert, representative, national coordinator, trainer, auditor or seminar moderator, are especially encouraged to participate.

First seminar in English - Start in September 2014

Participants can start in English any date until 23 September. Those who register will receive an information package, enabling them to attend the 23-24 Sept. workshops well-prepared.